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Experiencing Politics: A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care(2 California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public)

Experiencing Politics: A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care(2 California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public)


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John E. McDonough affords a rare glimpse into the practice of state politics in this insider's account of the fascinating interface between political science and real-life politics. A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for thirteen years and a skilled storyteller, McDonough eloquently weaves together stories of politics and policy with engaging theoretical models in a way that illuminates both the theory and the practice. By providing a link between scholarship and the world of experience, he communicates much about the essence of representative democracy. In the process, he demonstrates how politics extend beyond the public sphere into many aspects of life involving diverse values and interests.

McDonough describes the nature of conflict, the role of interests, agenda setting, the nature and pace of change, the use of language, and more. Accessible, insightful, and original, his stories touch on a broad range of issues-including health care politics, campaigns, and elections; a street gang called the X-men; the death penalty; campaign finance reform, and tenants versus landlords. To the author, politics is everywhere and political dynamics are universal. While the setting for this book is one legislature, the lessons and insights are intended for everyone.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Daniel M. Fox and Samuel L. Milbank
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Seeing Politics through Different Lenses

PART ONE: BASICS

1. Politics Is . . . and Debating Points
2. The Stories We Tell and the X-Men

PART TWO: THEMES

3. Landlords, Tenants, and Conflict
4. Interests and a Fiscal Crisis
5. Representation, Relationships, and Campaign Warchests

PART THREE: MODELS

6. Punctuated Equilibrium and the Fate of Hospital
Rate Setting
7. Agendas and Children’s Health Care
 
PART FOUR: ENDINGS

8. Conversations, Games, and the Death Penalty
9. Concluding Remarks

Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author :
John E. McDonough is Associate Professor at the Heller School at Brandeis University and the author of Interests, Ideas, and Deregulation: The Fate of Hospital Rate Settings (1997).

Review :
"McDonough's book deserves a wide medical audience as we reflect on where to go from here."--"Journal of the American Medical Association


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520224117
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 354
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: 2 California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public
  • Sub Title: A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0520224116
  • Publisher Date: 22 Nov 2000
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 354
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 612 gr


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